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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Regenerating packet-parlay.c

From: Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 1 May 2020 13:46:49 +0200
On 5/1/20 12:02 PM, Luke Mewburn wrote:
> On 20-05-01 07:34, Jaap Keuter wrote:
>   | 
>   | > On 1 May 2020, at 04:13, Luke Mewburn <luke@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   | > However, looking at the code some more, it appears that generally
>   | > wireshark_gen.py generates code in the order the operations are defined;
>   | > the exception (hah!) is the user exceptions.
>   | > 
>   | > If I instead add at the top
>   | > 	import collections
>   | > and change get_exceptionList() from
>   | > 	ex_hash = {}  # holds a hash of unique exceptions.
>   | > to
>   | > 	ex_hash = collections.OrderedDict()  # holds a hash of unique exceptions.
>   | > 
>   | > This results in consistent generated code with both python 2.7 (CentOS 7)
>   | > and python 3.7 (Fedora 31).
>   | > 
>   | > I've also fixed a whitespace issue in the generated code by indenting
>   | > the break in template_helper_switch_msgtype_default_end, so that it
>   | > matches the epan/dissectors code and other default statements.
>   | > 
>   | > 
>   | > Here's a patch with my suggested fixes.
>   | > Or would you prefer a commit/pull request (etc)?
>   | > 
>   | > 
>   | > regards,
>   | > Luke.
>   | > 
>   | 
>   | Hi Luke,
>   | 
>   | That’s great, I didn’t have the opportunity yet to dig into this.
>   | Nice that you compared Python 2.7 and 3.7 already.
>   | I’ll pick this up and put it in with the other fixes I've lined up,
>   | so you won’t have to push a change. I’ll credit you in the commit :)
>   | 
>   | Thanks,
>   | Jaap
> 
> No problem; happy to help!
> 
> cheers,
> Luke.
> 
> 

He Luke,

Are you able to recreate the parlay dissector currently in the repository with
this. So far I haven't succeeded.

Thanks,
Jaap